Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 7, 1916, Page 1

4 = ) Call Tyler 1000 'f You Want to Talk to The Bee ! or to_Anyone Connected With The Bee, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. [ &= | VOL. LV—-NO. 174. OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, — ] JANUARY 1916 TWELVE PAGES. SINGLE COPY TW(; CENTS. RREAT THRONGS GATHER TO SEE DODGE FUNERAL Entire Community Turns Out to Pay Homage to Last of the Great Commanders of the Civil War, /ALL BUSINESS AT STANDSTILL Wheels of Commerce Stop in Coun- cil Bluffs During Time of the Funeral. MOURNED BY ENTIRE NATION | Council Bluffs paused yesterday | and paid silent tribute to the mem- ory of General Grenville M. Dodge. All business and social functions were suspended during the afternoon and thousands of persons stood in the chill winter air as living walls between which the cortege passed. ‘When the artillery caisson bearing the casket reached the cemetery the | last automobiles were being loaded | at the Dodge residence, more than | two miles away. For the greater | part of the distance both sides of the | streets traversed were lined with people. When the cortege arrived at cemetery thousands of persons had | gathered there. Guards kept open the route in the cemetery and pre- vented massing around the grave.| There was no confusion. It was a military funeral and all moved with military precision. All of the major details had been planned by General Dodge himself and there was no de- | viation. Brigadier General Lincoln of Governor Clarke's staff and com- mander of the Jowa militia, said it was undoubtedly the largest funeral, | witnessed by the largest number of | people, ever held in Iowa. Distinguished Men Here. In the line of carriages and automobiles, more than two miles long, were vehicles bearing many distinguished men. Be- sides Governor Ciarke and his staff and | membere of the state's official family were Judge Deemer and other members of the supreme court, Judge Wade of the federal court, Attorney General Cosson, George Newman, representing the Na- tional Grand Army of the Republic, Washington; M. J. Morris of New York, | representing tne lowa society founded | there by General Dodge; H. J, 8. Howe, representing the Norwich university, where General Dodge veceived his col- lege training; ¥. 8. Harian, Des Moines, | representing the fowa Historicgl sociéty; | members of the Nebraska supreme court, General Manager Mohler and all of the | chief officlals of the Unvon Paciffc head-| quarters and many others prominent in the affalrs of Iowa ana Nebraska. In addition to these hundreas of citizens of Council Blufts and Omaha, i A great nurber of children came to| catch a glimpse of the cortege, and hur- dreds of others who went to the resi- dence filed past the casket. One of the | many beautiful traits of the character | of General Dodge was his love of chil- | dren, and the children loved him. Not| one was denied admission to the Dodge miansion. The doors opened silently at| the sound of little feet pattering up the ! sidewalk from the street and across the | veranda. The cortege passed the high | school, the Plerce street and Oak street | schools, and hundreds of children | thronged the open windows as the long procession passed. General Planned Service. The services mt the residence began at 1 o'clock. The character of the cere- | mony to be followed, the hymns to be | sung, and the singers were all designated | by General Dodge. Rev. Dr. A. G. A. Bux- | ton, rector of St Paul's church, | rendered the beautiful ritual of the Epis- | copal church and recited Tennyson's im- mortal last poem, ‘Crossing the Bar,~ which General Dodge bad asked for, and Rev. Dr. J. T. Jones, pastor of the First Congregational church, gave the eulogy. Both clergmen evinced deep feel- ing, and the beautiful Episcopal service (Continued on Page Five, Column One.) The Weather Forec: till 7 p. m. Friday: For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vici- nity—Unsettled, with probably snow; ris- ing temperature. | Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. Hours. ba m —~= ST PPEEPE EEEEEE o e sior =SB woma, 1333 a emr33MeZc EEEEEEE] - v 5 Comparative Local Record. | 1916, 1915, 1914, 1913. Highest yesterday N S Lowest yesterday Mean temperature ; 2 Precipitation s % -0 8 Temperature and precipitation depart- ures from the normal Normal temperature -3 1 9 Deficlency for the day.. d 10 Deficlency since March 1, 1815, . 81 Normaj precipitation .......... .02 inch | Deficlency since March 1, 1915..27.41 inches | Deficiency ‘rc. March 1.... 1M inches Deficiency r. period, 191 { Deficiency cor. period, 1913 Reports from Stations Station and State of Weather. Cheyenne, clear Temp, High- Rain- TP m fall. i 01 est | o o) Floux City, ) Valentine, clear ® T indicates tra — Lwlcates below zero. | Lo A WE , Local Forecaster. | Austrians. ATALIAN .AUTO BAXIERYS 1 MOBILE ITALIAN AUTO BATTERIES READY FOR ACTION —The Italians have found ADVANCE DRAFT these long-range guns mounted on auto trucks of immense value in the campaign against the A battery as here pictured can be moved from place to place with greater rapid- ity than a company of infantry can march, SUE R SENATE DEMANDS OMAHA GOOD SITE RIVER BOAT SINKS: DATA ON MEXICO the | Wilson Asked to Give Information | on Which He Based Recogni- tion of Carranza. ASSAILS WASHINGTON, Jan Martine’s resolution asking the pres- ident to set aside a day as Jewish relief day for Jewish war sufferers was adopted today after Chairman Stone of the foreign relations com- mittee had said that while he ap- proved such a cause in relation to the Poles and Jews, whom, he said, were without a government of their own, he hoped it would not extend to any of the organized nations. FALL PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Senator Fall's resolution calling upon President Wilson for information upon which he had based recognition of the Carranza government in Miexico, was agreed to unanimously today by the senate. Chairman Stone of the foreign relations committee saw no objection to its adoption and moved it be passed. . Senator Fail, in opening the promised republican attack on the administration's Mexican policy, said that former presi- dents had taken cowgress into their con- fidence when considering recognition of foreign governments. The last communi- cation ffom President Wilson, he con- tinued, was a message April 2, 1914, in which the president said there was no governmeht”in Mextco. - Now the senate was aske§l to confirm the noimnation of Henry Piather Fletchér as ambassador to Mexico, Fall's Remarks. Senator Fall declared: “I have never known of a time before when any president has dared ignore the congress of the United States, It has Dbeen ignored by the present occupant of the White Iouse. Senator Lodge urged adoption of the resolution. “Is our ambassador,” he asked, “to g0 to Mexico City, where Carranza has not gone, or will he follow the flitting camp of the first chlef wherever it goes? Re- cently, not only in Mexicu, but elsewhere, our government has adopted a plan of dealing through furtive agents of a per- sonal nature. “I think it probably desirable, however, | that we have a recognized ambassador in Mexico to look after the Americans who remain unmurdered there and fragments of property that are léft, but I think we should be informed officlally by the presi- dent regarding the goyernment to which he {8 to be assigned.” Senator John Sharp Willlams in the course of the debate asserted the right of self-government was inseparable from the “right of self-misgovernment.” “Mexican affalrs cannot be settled by spasmodic interference,” he sald, “and if you try to do it by annexation you'll fail. You cannot make a Mexican self- governing by any amount of interfer- ence.” s 1t Treasonable, Reverting to yesterday's discussion of the shipment of munitions of war Sen- ator Willlams declared the doctrine of | permitting the sale of firearms was es- tablished when the doctrine of noninter- terence with other nations was born, and denounced as treasonable those who charge that the sale of ammunition s countenanced only by those who seek a profit from it. He declared for an immediate policy of preparedness to save the United States “from Buropean bullying if not actual attack at the closs of the European war.” “The theory that Europe will be too e: hausted to attack after the war is false, sald he. “One Kuropean power already belleves that we have made ourselves the allies of the other belligerents. Unless we have an army and navy that will make them doubt that they ecan control us, after the war will come the bullying. 1t we are wise and patient enough to stand the bullying it will be all right, but the American people are not that type.” French Liner Chased By a Submarine PARIS, Jan. 6.—A Havas dispatch from Marsellles says the French steamship Karnak, with a large number of passen- gers on board, has arrived from Alex- andria and Malta, having been pursued for several hours on Monday evening by a submarine. Captain Lancelin of the Karnak ordered that his vessel be gent ahead at full speed as soon as the sub- marine was observed and to follow a zig- zag course. The passengers slept all isht in the saloon, afier putting on life belts, 6.—Senator | FOR ARMY SCHOOL | He Will Urge Location Here if Choice is Made. | —_— ALSO FINE FOR AN ARSENAL (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-—(Special Telegram.)—Before the military af- fairs committee of the house of rep- resentatives, of which ex-Governor Shallenberger is a member and chairman of the subcommittee deal- ing with arsegals. barracks and grounds, the departmental bill for the increase of the army was under consideration today. While the bill in its general provisions was under discussion two propositions came up for extended consideration, namely the need of schools other than West Point for the training of young of- ficers and the location or arsenals and storage depots other than those already established. Representative Shallenberger, who took the livellest positive interest in upbuild- ing the militla when governor of Ne- braska, said to The JBee gorrespondent toda¥: “Omaha is most spiendidly located for a school patterned after, and along the lines of West Point, and should the bill now under consideration become a law, I would certainly favor the loca- tion of a military school in the metropolis of my state. “Fort Omaha is ideally located for a #chool of milftary instruction, such as the committee is now considering. It has a geographical location that is splen- did, and is reached by a network of rail- roads of the very first importance. “‘But there is another subject recelving the very serious consideration of the committee and that is the establishment of government arsenals and armor plate manufactories where war munitions could {be made more economically than by pri- vate' plants. “Outside of Rock Island our arsenals and storage depots for war munitions are located on our two seaboards and, there- fore, easy of access to invaders from either ocean. Omaha, for the same reason that applies to the location of a military #chool at that point, is equally well sit- uated for an arsenal or a great supply depot and if the government is going to create additional schools for thé training of young officers or is going to erect ad- ditional arsenals for the manufacture of the munitions of war, I shall insist that Omaha is an ideal location for either project.” Baltimore Primary Plank is Declared Only a,j;_uggestion LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan. 6.—Dele- gates to the democratic national conven- tion do not have to run In state pri- maries, but must be elected by the state convention of the party, -according to a statement issued here today by W. F. McCombs, national democratic committee chalrman. Mr. McComb's explanation was given In view of the fact that the Arkansas committee had declared that delegates must seek nomination in primary, and be- cause he said he understood that a dozen other states were contemplating similar {p ocedure, “The plank adopted at the democratic convention in Baltimore was a suggestion and is not mandatory,” sald Mr. Me- Combs. Roosevelt Will Visit West Indies NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Announcement that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will start on February 16 on a trip to the West In- dies, from which he will not return until April 1, was made today. He will be ac. companied by Mrs. Roosevelt. Colonel Roosevelt will speak in Philadelphia be- fore the National Americanization com- mittee on January 2, but has cancelled his speaking engagement in Chicago Le- fore the Illinols progressives on Feb. ruary 12, BULGARIA VOTES HUNDRED MILLION WAR CREDIT LONDON, Jan. 6-~A war credit of $100,000,00 was enthusiasticully approved by the Bulgarian Parliament, says a @fs- |pateh to the Times from Saloniki, Al scetions of the opposition voted with the government. ‘. » EIGHT LIVES LOST Congressman Shallenberger Says | Packet Kanawha Tears Hole in Side | Near Parkersburg and Drifts Down Stream. FOUR WOMEN AMONG VICTIMS PARKERSBURG, W. Va , Jan. 6, —Captain Brady M. Berry of the steamer Kanawha, which was wrecked last night in the Ohio river, estimated this afternoon that the loss of life in the sinking would be twelve. River men now place the list of missing at eighteen. 0., and Mrs, Fitz 0., are reported Va. patrick of Belleville, washed ashore at New England, W GALLIPOLIS, O., Jan. 6.—It was reported here today that eight lives were lost when the river packet Kanawha sank below Parkersburg, | Those drowning | W. Va., last night. were said to include Btewards Lloyd Gee and Purser Bert Wolfe of this city, a watchman and five passen- gers, ineluding four women and a child,” Whosé named cpuld not be learned here today. ‘Government in- spectors in this district plan to inves- tigate the disaster, Sixty-Twe Rescued. PARKERSBURG, W. Ve, Jan. 6.— Captain Brady M. Berry and sixty-two of the steamer Kanawha, which sank in the Ohdo river at Dam N 19 last night, arrived here early today on a special train sent out by the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad company to pick up the survivors, soattered along four miles of river front on the West Virginia side. Captain Berry sald that while he saw no one In the water and did not know that any had been lost, he felt there had been fatalities and was walting for day- | light to return to the scene of the dis- aster when a thorough search would he made on the West Virginia and Ohlo shores of the riv The Kanawha had made the landing at Little Hocking, O., and was proceeding down stream when the pler was struck, tearing & blg hole in the side of the vessel. The boat continued dowh the river for some distance before It sank, and then it turned over on its side and floated as far as Lamp's Landing, five miles below, The boat went down in three minutes after it started to sink, ac- cording to the captain. ‘The passenger list of the Kanawha was made up principaily of West Virginia and Ohlo produce men. Among others not accounted for are Mrs. B C. Atkinson, Racine, O.; Lloyd Gee, & steward; Art Beaver, a watch- man; A. D. Hoblitzell, Washington, D, C., and Bert Wolf, Two Killed in Auto Wreck i,’i Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. 6.-Charles L. Jones, vice president of the Falk com pany, and his son, Cary, 15, were killed today when their automobile plundged through the ralling of the Lafayette bridge near McKinley beach. The ma- chine dropped forty feet. Mr. Jones tricd to avoid another automobile gnd this is blamed for the accident, | HILLES SAYS ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE WILL MEET NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Charles D. Hilles chairman of ‘he republican natio mittee, announced today that the commit tee on arrangements for the national con vention at Chicago will meet in that el'y on Monday, January The members include Ralph Willlams, Oregon. and John | T. Adams, Towa 1916 Will be A Busy Ye Keep Abreast of Current Events By Reading The Bee. Anna Campbell, a ! | | BILL; LABOR MEN LEAVE MINISTRY Conscription Measure Passes First Reading in House of Commons by Vote of Nearly Four to One THREE QUIT THE GOVERNMENT Arthur Henderson, William Brace and George H. Roberts Re- sign from Cabinet OUTCOME OF UNION MEETING nULLETIN LONDON, in. 6 The conscerip tion bill passed the first read n the House of Commons tonight by n vote of 403 to 105 LONDON, Jan. & Arthur Hen derson, president of the Board of Education and leader of the labor party in the House of Commons; Willlam Brace. parliamentary under secretary for home affairs, and| George H. Roberts, lord commis-| , sloner of the treasury, also labor!| party leaders, have resigned from the ! ministry. The rexignations of Mr. Henderson, Mr. | Brace and Mr. Roberts were the direct | outcome of the labor congress held today, | | which was followed by a two-hour con- ference among the parliamentary labor | members At the close of the latter eonference | the announcement was made of the with- drawal of the three labor members in | the comlition ministry. | 1t 15 understood that Mr. Henderson | will take an early opportunity to expldin his position to the House of Commons, probably at next Tuesday's session . | There are now four vacancies in the conlition ministry, including that caused | | by the resignation of Sir John A. Simon, | |the home secretary. Gosslp alrcady is busy over the probable successors of the outgoing ministers. 'Vienna Denies Story | 0f Russ Occupation ! . 0f Czernowitz Forts| BBERIAN, Jan. 6.—(By wireless to Say- | | ville)—A denial of newa agency dis. patches from Petrograd reporting that the Austro-iungarians had evacuated | Crernowits of the Russian official| | clatm to ad near that eity, s winde! | by the offiflsl prégs bureau in Vieana, the Overseas News agency announcel | today. Its statement says: | “News agency reports from Petrograd | | state that the Austro-Hungarians evacu-| |ated Czernowits, as the Russians had| occupled heights dominating that city. | Vienna press headquarters states that) demonstrated by the Austro-Hungarians| headquarters report of Januaiy 6. H { “Vienna further states that the Rus-| slans have not advanced beyond the| positions which they have accupled for| months on the frontier east of Czernowits | 80 that the Russian headquarteds report of January 3, which tells of a continuous | Russian advance s untrue," i A French hand grenade attack against | the German lines northeast of Le Mesnil | was easlly repulsed, German army head- | | auarters announced today. Allled artil-| lery has been uninterruptedly shelling the | | tmportant town of Lens, northeast of Arras. | It is announced that an allied alrcraft | attack upon Doual falled. German avi- aters shot down the British aeroplanes. | ! One of the machines was brought down ' by Lieutenant Moelke, this being the sev- | | enth aeroplane that he has succeeded in | | disabling. There have been artillery duels | | at several places \ | On the Riga-Dvinsk front In Russia -l German reconnaitering detachment south | of Jacobstadt withdrew before a superior | Russian force, the statement says. | In Volhynia the Germans dislodged the | defenders of an advanced Russian posi | tion, the statem nt declared ! Man's Affections ‘ . Not Worth Sum | . Allowed, Rules Court | | SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Jan. 6.—(Special.) {—Good progress is being made In the | |work of Introducing testimony in the |United States court, in the second trial lof the damage suit of Mrs. Clara T. Ar- mour of Cherokee, Ia., against Mrs, Mabel McGowan, a widow, of Mil. | bank, 8. D, Mrs. Armour alleges that the Milbank woman robber her of the affections of | Air. Armour, who Is a traveling man, and | who is alleged to have become Infatuated i with the Milbank woman after her met | her while on a business trip to Milbank. Mrs. Armour meeks to recover heavy damages for the alienation of her hue, | band's affections. | At the first triel of the case, which | took place last year, the jury, ufter be- | ing out but little more than twenty | minutes, returned a verdict awarding the ! | lowa woman a judgment of $25,00 against | Mrs, McGowan. Judge Elllott of the fed- erel court, after arguments on a motion for a new trial made by the defendant, kranted a second trian on the Kround | that the amount of damages awarded at the first trial was excessive H . Those on the Persia Unaccounted for 336 | LONDON, Jan. 6—~An announcement made tonight by the Peninsular and Orlental Steamsnip company says that the number of persons on board the llumflr! Persia who have not been accounted for uggregate 330 Of these 119 were puum’ ‘;u- and 27 members of the crew, l { within & limited area probably was the HORRORS TOLD OF LOST FIGHT FOR GALLIPOLI Ian Hamilton, in Complete Report | on Operations on Peninsula, De- scribcs Slaughter of Un- tried British Troops. THEY SUFFERED FROM THIRST Story of Struggle of Inexperienced Men and Generals Against Overwhe!ming Odds. SOLDIERS CHOKE THEIR FOES LONDON, Jan General Tan Hamiiton's report on the British op- cratons on the Gallipolt peninsula | published in the Official Ga-| tonight It tells the story of the fighting on the pennisula from the beginning of May to the middle of October The Suvla bay landing failed to accomplish its object, the report shows, partly because the force con- sisted largely of untrained troops under generals inexperienced in the new warfare, and partly through the failure of the water supply. The sufferings of the troops for lack of water make painful reading. Throws Light on Landing. Probably no more important contribu- tion to the history of the present war vet has been made. The report throw light on the great landing at Anzac cove and Suvia bay August 7, which has been the subject of strong attacks upon the military administration of the govern- ment, the whole operations requiring the combined action of the army and the navy, The handling of the masses of troops v zette most complicated ever undertaken, and the military men are surprised that some tmportant detalls tailed to work out as planned General Hamilton bestows the highest possible praise upon the bravery of the| men. iie belleves that after the middle | of August the Turks outnumbered the Rritish and had plenty of fresh soldiers and munitions, while the British gov- ernment was unable to furnish him with the reinforcements he wanted, The general strongly opposed the aban- | donment of any of the bases held by the! British troops. 1 Submitted to Kitchener. General Hamilton report which wap| submitted to 1Meld Marshal Earl Kitch-| ener, secretary of state for war, carries the story of ine Dardanelles operations up to mid-October, when he relinguished his commaend. Concerning his retirement General Hamilton reports: “On October 11 your lordwhip cabled asking me for an estimate of the losses which' would be involved in the evacua- | tlon of the pefilnsula. I replied in terms showing that such a step was to me un- thinkable, On October 16 I received a ble recalling me to London for the rea- | | this report is an Invention, as is clearly ®on, as 1 was informed by your lordshiD |{, prey upon British commerce. on my arrival, that his majesty's gov-| ernment desired fresh, unblased opinion from a responsible commander upon the question of early evacuation.’ The most stirring passages of the doc- Suvia Bay and Anzac early in August for securing command of the helghts on the | middle of the peninsula and cutting off from their base the Turkish forces at the lower extremity where the entente allled army made their first landing. AUSTRIA SILENT ON SINKING OF LINER PERSIA Ambassador Penfield Says He Has Had No Reply to the Re- quest Made for In. formation, FEW REAL FACTS KNOWN Affadavits Gathered at Alexandria Throw No Light on Cause of the Disaster. AMERICAN MISSIONARY IS LOST WASHINGTON, Jan, 6, —Ambai dor Penfield cabled today that he had presented informally to the Vienna foreign office the American govern- ment's request for any information on the destruction of the British liner Persia and at the time of filing his dispatch had received no reply. American Consul Garrels at Alex- | andria reported that the affidavits he has gathered from the Persia gave no more proofs that a submarine tor- pedoed the liner, or regarding its na- tionality, than were contained in his first dispatches. No Torpedo is Seen. Ambassador Penfleld was instructed to ask the Austrian government informally for any information it might have on the Persia which would help the American government decide how the liner was destroyed, Consul Garrels was Instructed to get atfidavits for the same parpose. 8o far the only actual statement tend- ing to prove that the ship was torpedoed came from one of the officers of the ship, who sald he saw what he thought was the wake of a torpedo, No submarine w seen at any time, Absence of further definite advices ia holding the situation, so far as any ac- tion of the United States ia concerned, at a standatill. Stome Talks with Wilson, Chairman Stone of the foreign relations , committee discussed the situation with the president today and talked of other questions expected to come up at a meet- Ing of the committee tomorrow, par- ticularly Senator Fall's resolution for in- formation on the recognition of the Car- ransa government and Infurmation on the | Mexican question. ‘The president told Senator Stone no additional inforffiation of importance had been recelved on the Perala incident and expressed the hope that until the gov-, ernment had formulated I's policy there be as little discussion as _.sible in the | senate. % N ' Status of Armed s 4 | A memorandum defining tho general, |status of armed merchant vessels visit- |ing American ports was issued by Sec- tetary Lansing in September, 1914, when | |complaint was made by the Britieh gov- jernment that merchant vessels, with of- fensive armament, were escaping from ports of this country and South America The (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) |German Forces ument describe the {ll-fated landing at | | Back of Czernowitz Are On Defensive LONDON, Jan, 6.~The Times learns Climax at Daybreak. This operation began on Augustf. The | climax was reported at daybreak on the 10th, when the Turks made a grand at- tack from the summit of Chunnuk Bair hill upon a short front held by two bat- ! tallons of the Bixth North Lancashire (Continued ¢ Fake Gamblers Get $175,000 from Six Page Two, Column FOUr) | pornood of C from its Petrograd correspondent that the Russians have plerced the enemy's position in the immediate vicinity of Csernowitz, compelling their opponents [to fall bak to their secondary line and definitely assume the defensive. The dis- patch, dated Wednesday, says that the enemy's losses have been enormous in eng! nts and also in the neigh- rtorysk, where he was pressed back westward for several miles, SOUTH DAKOTA EDITORS WILL MEET AT HURON Men at St. Louig ! murox, s v, san. s.—(speciat)~The 8T, LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 6.~The staatment that six citizens of St Louls were swindle by a fake gambling syndicate and that their losses would approximate | 9176,000, was made today by a New York detective who has been working here connection with the case. Four men id to be connected with the alleged fraudulent scheme were arrested in Now York yesterday and one was arrested in 8t. Louls, According to the evidence secured by the police, the victims were led to be- lieve that by cheating at faro they could make a fortune. The victims were taken to ..ew York where they were conducted to an establishment sald to be run by an old man, who had gambling houses in New York, Chicago, S8an Francisco and Havana. The dealer was the son of the owner, the victims were told, and he was willlng to defraud his father because the old man had disinherited the son. Only one alleged St. Louls known to the police, who are looking for the other five. Henry Gallant, a pawn broker, the police sald, has admitted the losa of §70,000. WILSON WILL CONSIDER ENDORSEMENTS OF TAFT WABHINGTON, Ji 6.—President Wil- son told callers tod that pointing a successor to the late Bupreme Court Justice Lamar he would thoroughly canvass the situation. Senator Newlands of Nevada, told the president he thought if the president d sired to appoint a democrat, Secretary Lane should be selected and that other- | wise former President Taft should be| named. Mr. Taft has been indorsed in many messages received at the White House, ——— Out for Senate. CARSBON, Nev., Jan. 6.—Frank Nor- cross, chief justice of the state supreme court, announced his candidacy today for the repulbican nonfination for United States senafor from Nevade vietim 18 | before ap- | State Press assoclation will meet in Huron Thursday and Friday, January 13 and 14, in its annual midwinter meeting. Mr. Halladay, secretary of the associa- tion, has planned a very interesting and instructive program. While in Huren the editors are to be the guests of the Com- mercial club at a banquet given at the Royal hotel Thursday evening. Due to the central location and excellent rail- road facilities the executive officers of the association feel confident that this will be one of the largest midwinter meetings in the history of the organiza- tion. The Day’s War News | trlan lues from Volhynia south- ward to Bukowin con! | heavy a official reports both sides indicate that the f ng In of a desperate wulnary character. EFORTS OF EVAC ATION ot Crernowits by the Austrians bave not been confirmed, Petrograd of« ficial ndvices today only elal ing that the Ru pelled the elty's defe: back to their secondary Hn FRENCH ARE POUNDING heavily ou the German tremches in the! ud between Solsso notable damage by bombardments. BULGARIA HAS APPROPRIATED $100,000,000 for war purposes, & Saloniki dispateh states. AT WASHINGTON the senate com- mittee foreign relations will meet (omorrow to consider the Inv ternational situation. AT A CONFERENCE te be held iu| Lo toduy British